Across
- 1. The idea that human released pollutants are causing a rapid change in the earth's long-term weather and short-term events (stronger storms, for example)
- 4. living part of the environment
- 5. Growth where there is a period of exponential growth but it levels off around the carrying capacity later
- 7. Nonliving part of an environment
- 9. The role or job an organism has within its environment
- 12. An approach to using resources and energy so that they are not used up
- 13. How matter (like carbon and water) moves through the earth's different systems (life, geology, hydrology, atmosphere)
- 15. Energy derived from atoms radioactively decaying
- 16. A group of fuels made from long-dead plants and animals that have been compressed underground
- 17. Period when humanity began to use coal and other fossil fuels to provide energy, resulting in a massive socio-economic change
Down
- 2. growth When the rate of growth keeps increasing with population size
- 3. Ethic that views all life as equal when making changes to the environment
- 6. Ethic that views human needs as more important than other living things
- 8. Where an organism lives
- 10. Act from Congress that requires businesses to pay to clean up hazardous waste they left in the environment
- 11. Energy derived from volcanic activity that heats underground water
- 14. How many of one species an ecosystem can sustain without being degraded